Gary

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I've added two new articles to the site. The Chaplet of Spiritual Communion is a means for meditating on the Blessed Sacrament directed at making a Spiritual Communion. It follows the form of the rosary, but with mysteries focused on the Eucharist and prayers directed toward making a Spiritual Communion and preparing for your next [...]

Gary2020-04-19T16:21:02-04:00April 19th, 2020|Categories: Eucharist, Virtue|Comments Off on New Articles

A couple of years ago, I was helping to lead a teen retreat. I gave a talk that included some of my background with anxiety and depression. Two things happened after that. First, the teens on the retreat said that the talk made a significant impact on them. Second, I had a strong inclination toward [...]

Gary2020-03-15T18:19:41-04:00October 26th, 2019|Categories: Anxiety/Depression|Comments Off on Anxiety and Depression

"My Jesus, I believe that Thou art truly present in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I love Thee above all things, and I desire to possess Thee within my soul. Since I am unable now to receive Thee sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace Thee as being already there, and unite myself [...]

"Arm yourself like a man against the devil’s assaults. Curb your appetite and you will more easily curb every inclination of the flesh. Never be completely unoccupied, but read or write or pray or mediate or so something for the common good." -Thomas a' Kempis

"True, God is everywhere, but we have need for Him to draw near to us under sensible signs, and this is what He does in the Blessed Sacrament. Think, then, that He is there. That Presence is sweeter, is recalled more easily than the presence of the invisible, the impalpable Divinity. It is less easily [...]

"Have you no longer any sentiment of your sins? and, if you do see them, do you correct them? No, I am constantly falling back into the same faults, without paying any great attention to it. Then, are you already dead! You are without feeling! There is no state more frightful than that in which [...]